The Problem With Mostly Male (and Mostly Female) Workplaces

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11. I'm looking at the BLS numbers from 2011 too, Jeff.

This is their chart:



Only 36.4% of women in the workplace have attained college degrees.

I don't know what the young men plan. Evidently they feel they can skate through college and life gets handed to them on a platter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/education/09college.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Nearing graduation, Rick Kohn is not putting much energy into his final courses.

"I take the path of least resistance," said Mr. Kohn, who works 25 hours a week to put himself through the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "This summer, I looked for the four easiest courses I could take that would let me graduate in August."

It is not that Mr. Kohn, 24, is indifferent to education. He is excited about economics and hopes to get his master's in the field. But the other classes, he said, just do not seem worth the effort.

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Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women.

And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates.

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Perhaps parents feel college is wasted on students who don't plan to work hard and just get by. Tuition is expensive.